While Apple CEO Tim Cook, in the last twenty months of his headship of the company, has been running Apple just the way his predecessor - late Steve Jobs - would have, the firing of Apple's software interface guru Scott Forstall is apparently one move Cook made which Jobs would not have.

As per recent reports, it has been revealed that two hackers have been held guilty for hacking attack on Sony Pictures computers. The incident is said to have started from Late May 2011 and caused loss to the company.

According to recent reports, huge lines of customers were seen piling up outside the T-Mobile USA stores on Friday. Lines, however, weren't too big and were dealt by the officials before the afternoon.

In a recent disclosure which marks the finishing point for the Roadrunner, a first-of-its-kind compilation of processors, the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) said that the $121 million supercomputer will be shut off on Sunday, with a flip of a switch.

Sony Corp. has plans to release the next video game console. The plans are to have a new technology to stream games into it.

The service would be used to design current PlayStation 3 titles on the new console. It is also anticipated to play new games stored on optical discs.

Sources have revealed that the next generation of Office is the best that has come till now, though it is not an upgraded version of the Office 2010. According to the reports, editing complicated financial spreadsheets has become very easy.

Oracle Corp released an emergency update to its Java software for surfing the Web on Sunday, but security experts said the update fails to protect PCs from attack by hackers.

A new report claims that it is not only Apple, which has realized flaws in its maps, but Google's maps can also not be guaranteed as flawless. Though, Apple Inc, the biggest tech giant, has allowed the same to enter iOS.

2012 is heading towards its end and so this news brings the five biggest stories of 2012 on Twitter, which proves it to be forming an integral part of everyone's everyday life.

In 2012, micro-blogging service became truly mainstream because:

A tradition began 57 years ago in 1955, when two days prior to Christmas, an advertisement in newspaper read "Hey Kiddies, call me direct on my telephone..." with Santa figured along with and a telephone number printed.